Ralph Angenendt spake the following on 5/2/2007 2:36 AM: > John Summerfield wrote: >> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >>> It cannot be set by "number of mails before a digest is sent out", but >>> only as "size in kB a digest should grow to before it is sent out". >>> >>> This size is set fairly huge, so it never seems to be reached - 30 MB. >> Strewth! The default Postfix mailbox size is 10 Mbytes. > > 50M. > >> Calculate how long it takes a 30 Mbyte message to go through a modem. >> Imagine if the poor sod waiting for it is downloading something else at >> the time. > > That number is only for splitting off digests if that number is reached > before the *daily* archive gets out. As I already said: This number can > be changed as it really seems to be set too high. > > But I want to hear from people if they would rather get *one* digest per > day or up to three or four digests per day. > > Ralph I read through Gmane, because I never found a mail reader that worked with the mime digests either. I just let the newsreader connect and get the headers, and I only have to download the messages I really want to read. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!